[Ord. 1976-8, 12/6/1976, § 1]
1.Â
Short Title. This Part 2 shall be known and may be recited as the
"Doylestown Borough Well Ordinance of 1976."
2.Â
Purpose. The purpose of this Part 2 is to promote and protect the
general health and welfare of the residents of the Borough of Doylestown,
by conserving the supply of underground waters and preventing the
pollution thereof.
[Ord. 1976-8, 12/6/1976, § 2; as amended by Ord.
2011-4, 3/21/2011, § 1]
The following words or phrases when used in this Part 2 shall
have the following meanings described to them except where the content
clearly indicates a different meaning:
All action necessary to construction Of wells such as drilling,
boring, coring, washing, digging, driving or letting.
Any water well contractor, his employee or representative
in responsible charge of drilling or otherwise constructing a well.
Any well or borehole in the ground constructed for the purpose
of extracting heat from or transferring heat to the ground or groundwater.
These shall include wells drilled as supply and/or return wells for
open-loop systems; or closed-loop geothermal boreholes.
A well used to observe water levels and/or obtain samples
or groundwater or soils and will not be used as potable/drinking water
well.
A natural person, a corporation, partnership or association.
A water supply which shall not be public as herein defined.
A municipally owned and operated system consisting of a well
or wells and other sources of supply, sewage, tanks and a distribution
system which distributes water to residential, commercial and/or industrial
consumers within the Borough of Doylestown.
Any excavation that is drilled, cored, bored, washed, driven,
dug or otherwise constructed for the location, diversion or acquisition
of underground waters or charging of water into underground strat.
[Ord. 1976-8, 12/6/1976, § 3; as amended by Ord.
2011-4, 3/21/2011, § 2]
From the effective date hereof, it shall be unlawful for any
person to locate, drill or have drilled any private or nonpublic well,
geothermal well or monitoring well or to install or have installed
any related pumping equipment to a private or nonpublic well, geothermal
well or monitoring well or to alter an existing private or nonpublic
well, geothermal well or monitoring well or its pumping equipment
until a permit for such location, drilling, installation or alteration
shall have been issued by the Borough Manager of the Borough of Doylestown.
All private or nonpublic wells, geothermal wells or monitoring wells
shall be constructed in accordance with specifications adopted therefor
by Borough Council.
[Ord. 2011-4, 3/21/2011, § 3]
All private or nonpublic wells, geothermal wells and monitoring
wells shall comply with the Bucks County Department of Health Rules
and Regulations Governing All Wells and Their Construction Specifications,
as it may be amended from time to time.
[Ord. 1976-8, 12/6/1976, § 4]
Application for permits as herein required shall be on forms
provided for that purpose by the Borough of Doylestown. All wells
drilled within the Borough of Doylestown must be drilled by a well
driller licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. All applications
for a permit shall specify the location of the property on which the
well is proposed to be drilled and shall be accompanied by the name
of the proposed well driller and a sketch of the proposed well construction.
[Ord. 1976-8, 12/6/1976, § 5]
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No private or nonpublic well shall be drilled to service any property
within the Borough of Doylestown which is serviceable by means of
a public well.
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No private or nonpublic well shall, in any event, be drilled at any
location within 1,000 feet in any direction from any existing, or
then proposed, location of a public well.
3.Â
Wells for waste disposal. No private or nonpublic well shall be drilled
nor shall any existing private or nonpublic well be used for the purpose
of disposal of domestic or industrial waste.
[Ord. 1976-8, 12/6/1976, § 6]
The owner of any private or nonpublic well shall, upon abandonment
thereof, effectively seal and fill such well in accordance with standards
adopted therefor by Borough Council. A private or nonpublic well not
in operation for one or more years or improperly maintained to prevent
contamination may be deemed to have been abandoned.
[Ord. 1976-8, 12/6/1976, § 7; as amended by Ord.
1984-1, 2/23/1984]
An application for permit to drill a private or nonpublic well
shall be accompanied by an application fee as established by resolution
of Council.
[Ord. 1976-8, 12/6/1976, § 8]
This Part 2 is enacted pursuant to the general authority granted unto the Borough Council of the Borough of Doylestown by Act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Act of 1966, February 1, P.L. (1965), No. 581, § 1202, 53 P.S. § 46202 (39).
[Ord. 1976-8, 12/6/1976, § 9; as amended by Ord.
1984-1, 2/23/1984]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this Part 2 shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay
a fine of not more than $300 and/or to imprisonment for a term not
to exceed 90 days. Every day that a violation of this Part 2 continues
shall constitute a separate offense.
